GREAT NEWS! The Trump Administration is dismantling the over-bloated Refugee Resettlement System

April 1st marked the halfway point in the federal government’s fiscal year and, so far, the United States has only admitted 10,548 refugees, placing it on track to fall far short of its already record low admission ceiling of 45,000 individuals. Resettlement workers and refugee advocates say that this is further evidence of the Trump administration’s deliberate efforts to sabotage the refugee resettlement system now and for years to come.

Indypendent “The program is being torn down from the top,” says Dr. Shelly Callahan, executive director of the Mohawk Valley Resource Center in Utica, which works to resettle refugees.

Since 1980, the president has set the cap on refugee admissions each fall for the fiscal year running from October to September. President Trump’s 45,000 person ceiling is the lowest ever, down from 110,000 during President Obama’s last year.

The number actually admitted rarely reaches the ceiling completely, but this year is among the worst in that regard, too. At the current rate, it will be only the third time since 1980 that actual admissions fell short of the ceiling by more than 50 percent, the other two times being immediately after 9/11, under George W. Bush.

Workers for the nonprofits that handle refugee resettlement claim the administration is deliberately slowing down the processing of cases as part of its effort to cause long-term damage to the country’s refugee resettlement infrastructure. In the past year, the administration has introduced time-consuming and unnecessary additional screening procedures. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an office of the Department of Homeland Security, has also reassigned “about 100” out of 197 Refugee Corps officers to the Asylum Division, according to a spokesperson.

While similar to each other in some ways, asylum officers do not conduct refugee interviews overseas, the first step in the lengthy and complex process by which individuals are approved for resettlement to the United States. With fewer refugee officers screening applicants overseas, the entire pipeline is slowed down, with dramatic effects.

The U.S. government works with nine private nonprofit organizations, known as voluntary agencies, to assign refugees to host communities around the United States. Voluntary agencies receive $2,125 in federal funding for each refugee they resettle and administer networks of local offices that provide services directly to the refugees.

In December, the State Department informed the voluntary agencies of its intention to close all local affiliate offices that are not projected to receive at least 100 refugees in fiscal year 2018.

Of the approximately 320 local officesAccording to a plan drawn up by the voluntary agencies and obtained by Reuters, some 74 offices are expected to be closed this year. Eleven new offices that were in the planning phase at the time will not be opening, although some of them may still be able to operate as sub-offices dependent on other offices for cases and funding.

In New York State, home to one of the largest immigrant and refugee populations in the country, the closures could hit the resettlement sector hard. The state has 23 resettlement offices, 12 of which Reuters says will be closing this year. As of March 31, New York State has only been assigned 652 refugees via the State Department, far from the number needed to maintain the existing network.

By throttling the pipeline, the State Department is creating the low numbers that it will then use to close offices in the name of cost-saving efficiency. It is also forcing staffing cuts at the agencies, whose funding depends on refugee arrivals. The layoffs and closures being engineered by the Trump administration will impact the refugee resettlement system for years to come.

In response to the Trump administration’s attacks, many Americans have rallied in support of the local resettlement offices in their communities. Shelly Callahan of the Mohawk Valley Resource Center says her organization received the most donations ever last year and there has been a surge in volunteers. But, she says, “The State Department is dismantling the program from the inside out. I can have all of Utica hit the streets in support, but it’s not going to change the fact that overseas processing has come to a halt.”

VOX Trump’s Executive Order tasks the federal government with coming up with a new process to screen everyone hoping to immigrate to the US, one that requires each individual immigrant to prove she or he would be a “positively contributing member of society.”

The Trump administration is framing the executive order as a security measure: It is titled “Protecting the Nation From Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nationals.” But the restrictions it poses on refugees in particular are much broader than the actual security reforms it introduces.

The order has, both by design and due to predictable consequences, resulted in the US taking a fraction of the refugees it’s taken in the past couple of years. It also fundamentally alters the composition of who is able to come to the United States — showing, in many cases, the greatest skepticism and least openness to people form Muslim countries.

The Trump administration’s executive order presumes that the US needs to take longer reviewing refugee procedures in 2017 than it did after 9/11.

Even after the US resumes refugee admissions, it will happen at a slower pace. In part, this is intentional: Trump is using executive authority to reset the refugee quota from 110,000 for fiscal year 2017 (which is where Obama had set it) to 50,000.

Below are some of the many refugee resettlement agencies that are laying off staff and at risk of closing altogether.

But the executive order singles out refugees for an even stricter standard — one that presumes exclusion rather than inclusion. Instead of the US blacklisting countries whose residents can’t come to the US, it’s whitelisting countries that can. This means that after the 120-day refugee ban has ended, refugees will only be allowed to enter the US if they come from countries where the US government believes procedures are in place to “ensure the security and welfare of the United States.”

In practice, this will mean that the Trump administration will only admit refugees from countries that are stable enough and friendly enough for the Trump administration to trust. Those don’t tend to be the countries that generate the most refugees.

Trump, in comments, made clear what this means: “We are going to help” Christians in the Middle East. The executive order lays the groundwork for the government to judge individual immigrants based on “the applicant’s likelihood of becoming a positive contributing member of society, and the applicant’s ability to make contributions to the national interest.” People can be banned from settling permanently in the US if they’re likely to be a “public charge,” for example.

“the agencies, whose funding depends on refugee arrivals”.
Yes, a telling detail. The “Voluntary Agencies” (“VolAgs”) are rather laughingly described as “non-profit”, but are in fact PAID CONTRACTORS of the government.
There is a conflict of interest when their pay depends on the numbers of arrivals. That gives them a vested interest in keeping those numbers coming.

Are you in my husband’s circle? There’s a group of them that just love to play with fb! Suspended from one, open another. The one suspension will be up while the other one is down. Why do you guys bother?? He says it’s fun. Watch heads explode!! Judenrat suckerburg would have handed over his own mother for the right price!!

There are bona fide refugees in need of sanctuary but Muslims do not qualify. In fact they ARE the ones causing people to flee for their lives and seek help. They are victim-MAKERS – not victims! So shut the borders to any and all Muslims; do not let them in under any circumstances. EX-Muslims, fine, allow them entry if their lives are in jeopardy, but practicing Muslims must be kept out!

Wonderful news! I shudder to think what would have happened had Billary won. But she didn’t, and we have a man who truly loves and is protecting our country. Imagine if Trump didn’t have traitorous people who have been trying to hold him back. Even so, his resilience and strength are accomplishing wonders.

The immigration industry being majority government participant can’t afford this because it will loose jobs. I think they will have more time to do a better job with those who are here legally to get settled.

Trump isn’t making refugees. These non for profits are! The more refugees, the more their income is! How much are these so called non profits pulling in? How about, stop the human trafficking that they are involved in? Bring in a breathing body, get a prize. They do absolutely NOTHING to help these pseudo refugees past the point where the taxpayers foot the bill, then they cut them loose and no one knows how they’re faring. And these “humanitarian” organizations could care less because they’ve already gotten their money!!

Yes this is the right President for the times. Ban muslims not coal. They were hard at work tearing down America, now someone is on the real peoples side, time to build up the ramparts. As an aside, I’m thinking of making a inpatient house to treat addiction to facebook by users (user = loser), since people seem incapable of quitting on their own.

I’m grateful that Trump is doing this…now, if we can only get rid of the little Islamist in the Canadian government who is close to turning the northern neighbor of the US into a caliphate full of terrorists?

“requires each individual immigrant to prove she or he would be a “positively contributing member of society.”
And THIS is what the ugly freaks are fighting, while they are piling in loads of violent stinking muzslime thugs. These “agencies” should go on everyone’s list of people to REMEMBER when the shtf. Every damned one of them and those working for them are to be considered TRAITORS and be treated accordingly!!!!! The vile gall of these creatures is disgusting!!!!

“part of its effort to cause long-term damage to the country’s refugee resettlement infrastructure.”
What an unmitigated stupid comment this is. Its her and EVERY damned America destroying freak like her that is doing the WRONG thing. This good President is doing all he can to help America. What an ugly mean spirited BITCH this callahan is.

Welcome to the club😁. There are ways around it, but you have to keep changing your email identity. My husband had at least five fb accounts. Stopped since he was deployed, but, it IS kind of fun fugging with them.

Great news, but I don’t know if there’s anything he can do to get me back on the Trump train after he needlessly and FOOLISHLY put us all at risk for a new world war with his attack against Syria under false pretenses. The attack against innocent Syrian civilians was a false flag, the civilians were used as a prop. This is but a new 2.0 version of the Nazi’s operation Himmler and he fell for it😣 My trust in him is gone.

ACTUALLY, I am citing Paul Joseph Watson. Whom ironically, you have cited/quoted him here before as an info source. Tucker Carlson’s question and PJW’s question towards the last 2 minutes were all that’s on my mind, in the longview this makes no sense and is wasteful of America as it is foolish. Not even mentioning the fact that potus has once again betrayed his own campaign word to NOT be a world Buttinski. So much for “America 1st”. But if it helps for you to dismiss me as some conspiracy kook like Alex Jones, feel free: 👇https://youtu.be/k-WuPFlMThw

Oh right, so let me know when you have a news site of your own so that you may look down upon your mountain of righteousness and gift us with your wisdom since you have the answers. I don’t see any “bare naked don spillman” news sites, oh crap now I need eye bleach *barf!* 🤢 Worse still, you can’t bleach the mind’s eye😣

Lydia…agree with you to some extent. Though, I don’t believe these few air strikes against chemical weapons manufacturing facilities put us at the brink of a world war. I think that we stepped over that precipice years ago. What I question about this is the timing. Trump announces that he’s pulling our troops out of Syria and, BOOM!! There’s another gas attack on civilians!! Now, he’s backtracked and announces that our troops will remain in that country.

I know a few people from Syria. They fled the country not because of Assad, but because of the U.S. backed”Freedom Fighters”, armed by the Obama Administration. Most of these so called freedom fighters are not even Syrian. They’re Africans recruited by ISIS. When the SHTF, they fled to Europe seeking refugee status claiming that they came from Syria. Technically, they do. But, they are NOT Syrian!! If one only listens to them, their accents alone prove me out. How many blacks are in Syria?? Not as many as are claiming that as their point of origin.

Still, those weapons factories needed to be taken out, regardless of whose unleashing them. Chemicals have markers that show their origin. What I , trained in toxicology, would demand to see is those markers. Did they come from Russia? Manufactured there? or in the U.S.? Without a sampling, no one knows and no one is saying. I just have a hunch that this whole episode is timed too conveniently. This is the second time that this has happened. Begs further inquiry, I agree. However, I wouldn’t be so quick to point fingers. Too many questions. Not enough information. But, I will never blindly follow a government, president or msm.

Damn just got blocked from Facebook for 30 days, Their going back and finding stuff that was posted months if not years ago to block me and others that Muslims don’t approve of. So much for that waste of time hearing they had with Zukerberger last week.